YouTube for Schools: Join the Global Classroom

Information quoted from: http://www.youtube.com/schools

'YouTube for Schools provides schools access to hundreds of thousands of free educational videos from YouTube EDU. These videos come from from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED as well as from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy,Steve Spangler Science and Numberphile.

School admins and teachers can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. All comments and related videos are disabled and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos.

You can customize the content available in your school. All schools get access to all of the YouTube EDU content, but teachers and administrators can also create playlists of videos that are viewable only within their school's network.

YouTube.com/Teachers has hundreds of playlists of videos that align with common educational standards, organized by subject and grade. These playlists were created by teachers for teachers so you can spend more time teaching and less time searching.'

BBC article on YouTube for Schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16141986

Year 6 - E-Safety

Here are three Facebook Online E-Safety Videos posted by @ictmagic. I would suggest these E-Safety videos would be suitable for year 6 children, perhaps during work preparing  them for transition to secondary school. You may want to use these videos as a starting point for a discussion. I would recommend that you watch them yourself first!

I have embedded the videos using YouTube which might be blocked on your school network.  You may wish to download them using a Youtube downloader such as Zamzar.

 http://www.zamzar.com/

  Chapter 1 - Friend Requests  

Chapter 2 - Looking after your online status  

Chapter 3- Online Bullying

Other good Facebook E-Safety Sites 

Facebook E-Safety Pages 

Facebook E-Safety Teacher Page  

Follow the link on this page to download the teachers' guide.

Facebook E-Safety Parents Page 

Please post a comment if you know of any other good E-Safety Sites.

Finally, at what age can children legally use Facebook?   

Answer: 13

Interesting fact: More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.

November's Network Meeting - Follow Up Post

A big thank you again to all the subject leaders who attended the November ICT Subject Leaders' meeting. From my perspective it was really useful to meet with you all and discuss how you are using ICT to support teaching and learning. I have already started to plan how I might use some of the resources shared.


 Please find a summary from the feedback questionnaire  below.

Session	Question	Average score based on 14 responses.
1	Bristol Scheme of Work – An overview of the scheme of work focusing on how subject leaders can support planning and assessment in their school.	4
2	ICT + Literacy – Using ICT to enhance standards and enjoyment in literacy.	4.5
3	ICT + Math – Using ICT to enhance standards and enjoyment in Maths.	4
4	Websites/resources of the term	4.5
5	The Future -Group discussion. How should the ICT Subject Leader meetings evolve over the next year? How can we share best practice? How can we share planning and ideas? How can we communicate effectively? Who can we turn to when we need support?	4

Scale 1 = I did not find this useful                5  = I found this extremely useful

Response to written comments:

Things you found useful:

• having a subject leaders' blog is very useful as it provided an area where we could check for updated information and share our own planning/practice.
• providing a questionnaire before the meeting resulted in the agenda being relevant to subject leaders’ needs.
• publishing the agenda before the meeting was very useful.
• using an online booking form was convenient and easier than in previous meetings.
• having all meeting dates for the year published at the end of term 1 enabled teachers to give their SMT more notice which increased the likeliness of them being able to attend the meeting.
• publishing all notes on the blog enabled subject leaders who were unable to attend to view information.
• publishing notes using Google Docs enabled subject leaders to easily share information with other teachers.
• The shared planning area was useful as it enabled subject leaders to see examples of best practice.
• being given time/being shown how to create a blog.
• having the opportunity to meet with other subject leaders.

Areas you would like to focus on during the next Subject Leaders Meeting.

• greater focus on how Maths can be used to support teaching and learning
• opportunity in the afternoon to plan with other subject leaders and have 1:1 with AST.
• examples of how to use assessment tools in relation to the Bristol Scheme of Work.

There will also be a meeting agenda questionnaire sent to all Bristol schools in January in order to ensure that the content of the next meeting is relevant.

Additional Feedback

A number of subject leaders commented that it would be useful to have a twilight session on blogging. I will look into the possibility of this and e-mail all schools in January.

It would be really useful if you could use the Subject Leader blog to:

Share ideas/resources:

http://bristolprimaryictnetworkmeetings.blogspot.com/p/shared-ideasresources.html

Share planning (e-mail planning to chris.unsworth@bristol.gov.uk)

Share how you are using ICT to support teaching and learning. If anyone wishes to write a post on the blog then please e-mail me and I will provide you with a contributor account.

AST Outreach Support

If you would like to request AST outreach support then please complete the form below and send it to kate.rick@bristol.gov.uk

AST Outreach Support Information

A member of the senior management must complete this request.

I look forward to meeting/working with you soon.

Best wishes

Chris

All comments posted are welcomed.


Here are the Merlin contact details requested: vicky.moss-crump@swgfl.org.uk